Open, non-functioning Green Street station at 7:44 a.m. Photo by Sunsan Ellsbree.
Update: GBH reports a transformer in South Boston failed, triggering a power surge that tripped a circuit breaker.
In the middle of rush hour, the MBTA lost power to the signaling systems on all its subway lines - and some stations just lost power, period - leaving some riders stranded and others breaking out their phones to call a ride-share to work.
At 8:05 a.m., the T reported it had fixed the power problem but that riders could expect "residual delays."
But at 8:32, the T went oops, no, the reset or whatever didn't fix signal problems at Forest Hills on the Orange Line and Copley on the Green Line. At 8:49, the T said it had fixed the problem at Forest Hills, but that the Copley problem was proving more intractable.
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To be fair, could the T have
By xyz
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 8:17am
To be fair, could the T have reasonably anticipated snow? In Boston? In February?
Sounds Like The Shoe Has Dropped
By John Costello
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 8:18am
Seriously. Are we at the point of the deliberate sabotage of the system?
Somehow the commuter rail is running fine but the inner core, not so much.
Perhaps, and I hate to say it, the Pioneer Institute was right.
They had their chance to run
By xyz
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 8:34am
They had their chance to run it: that was Steve Poftak. I think the results speak for themselves.
I thought that moving an hour
By BethC
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 9:01am
I thought that moving an hour south of Boston would make my commutes much more difficult, but honestly, the commuter rail is more reliable most days than the subway system I used to ride. It's really a bad situation... Boston can't function for long without reliable public transit.
This is like a deliberately
By John Labarre
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 9:16am
This is like a deliberately misleading Fox New Headline... just sayin. How about, Systemwide MBTA Power Outage (snow may or may now have been involved etc.) :-)
Well ...
By adamg
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 11:30am
I wasn't thinking the snow stopped the T, although that wouldn't surprise me, but because on a day where people particularly need reliable T service, because it's cold and snowy, the T failed to function.
Electric issues
By ChrisF
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 9:54am
These power outages and issues could also be a result of the double whammy of CMEs we've taken over the past day with power issues being increased during solar storms. With the MBTA, you never really know for sure.
CME?
By Charles Bahne
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 10:52am
What's a CME? Google and Wikipedia tell me that it's a financial exchange for trading derivatives.
Coronal mass ejection from the sun
By adamg
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 11:26am
Which has resulted in some spectacular aurora action well to our north.
But see the link in the updated post: A transformer blew.
coronal mass ejection ...
By schneidz
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 10:07pm
sounds like puberty for stars ?
From the rider complaint form
By anon
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 1:36pm
When submitting complaint after the usual delays, form asks MTA to:
Contact My Employer to explain to them why I was late again because the T *!#&*#*# up.
More electric stoves will
By Rwgfy
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 2:58pm
More electric stoves will help.
well, just jam a penny in there ...
By schneidz
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 10:04pm
so basically the t is an old house with fuse boxes instead of modern breakers where turning on the microwave will cause the hallway lite to go out.
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